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VATICAN Pope Francis’ peace envoy to Ukraine Cardinal Matteo Zuppi will visit Beijing this week, the Vatican said Tuesday.
The trip from Wednesday to Friday “constitutes a further step in the mission desired by the Pope to support humanitarian initiatives and the search for paths that can lead to a just peace,” the Vatican said in a brief statement.
It did not mention the war in Ukraine.
Zuppi, who is head of the Italian bishops’ conference, was asked in May by the 86-year-old pope to lead a peace mission to try and stop the war.
